noun
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seeds or fragments of grass or straw
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informal a yokel
Etymology
Origin of hayseed
Example Sentences
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The hayseed county that begat Richard Nixon and the boysenberry also bestowed the Righteous Brothers’ “blue-eyed soul” and the drive-in church upon the world.
From Los Angeles Times
I, on the other hand, remain a philistine and a hayseed.
From Washington Post
He chose his favored venue of the Aspen Ideas festival, where his transfixing hayseed act has been a perennial marquee attraction.
From The Guardian
The Nonconformist was firmly in the populists’ corner, but 150 miles to the north, Kansas’s leading Republican newspaper derided the reformers as a gang of disgruntled hayseeds.
From Washington Post
She has written about how outsiders view residents: “We’re rednecks and hayseeds from the hinterlands, the backcountry, the backwoods, and the boondocks.”
From New York Times
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